Catalogue description British Council: Secretariat: Overseas Standing Instructions

A numbered series of procedural instructions issued to British Council staff serving overseas by its senior management in London.

These documents were first issued as 'Overseas Circulars' in 1944 and continued in that form in numerical sequence until 1955 (number 178 of 1955). From 1956 onwards the series was given the more formal title of Overseas Standing Instructions (OSI) and concentrated on personnel matters (subsistence and other allowances), office and staff accommodation, vehicles, inventories of furniture and equipment which were subsequently codified and incorporated into the council's service regulations and instructions and the financial and other handbooks.

British Council, Secretariat, 1936-